102 Imaginary Quotes for You to Enjoy

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. H. L. Mencken

Politics Safety Aim Menacing Practical Led Endless Them Populace Whole Series Keep Hence Imaginary

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings. Friedrich Nietzsche

Love World Giving Goodness Enough Permit Any Beings Away Imaginary

In the early 1940s, as a young teenager, I was utterly appalled by the racist and jingoist hysteria of the anti-Japanese propaganda. The Germans were evil, but treated with some respect: They were, after all, blond Aryan types, just like our imaginary self-image. Japanese were mere vermin, to be crushed like ants. Noam Chomsky

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Imaginary time is a new dimension, at right angles to ordinary, real time. Stephen Hawking

Time Dimension Angles New Real Real Time Ordinary Right Imaginary

Youth is impulsive. When our young men grow angry at some real or imaginary wrong, and disfigure their faces with black paint, it denotes that their hearts are black, and that they are often cruel and relentless, and our old men and old women are unable to restrain them. Thus it has ever been. Chief Seattle

Angry Youth Women Old Black Men Young Our Relentless Unable Some Restrain Faces Cruel Wrong Thus Real Been Women Are Hearts Often Impulsive Young Men Them Old Men Old Women Paint Grow Ever Imaginary

I was the kid next door's imaginary friend. Emo Philips

Funny Kid Friend Door Next Imaginary

Traditional economics is based on imaginary creatures sometimes referred to as 'Homo economicus.' I call them Econs for short. Econs are amazingly smart and are free of emotion, distraction or self-control problems. Think Mr. Spock from 'Star Trek.' Richard Thaler

Sometimes Smart Problems Free Economics Think Trek Distraction Emotion Spock Self-Control Call Traditional Amazingly Referred Short Them Star Star Trek Creatures Based Homo Imaginary

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads. Marianne Moore

Art Poetry Real Toad Creating Gardens Imaginary

It's scary to me to watch the world around us get less and less physical while in the imaginary world of pop culture, aggressive impulses and fear reactions are floridly, furiously stoked and indulged. Mary Gaitskill

We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise. Simone Weil

Paradise Hell Must Real Prefer Imaginary

Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that happened because of an imaginary tale. Umberto Eco

History Events Thought Looking Christopher India Finding He Columbus Tale Because Discovered Australia America Happened Cook Full Captain Imaginary

My favorite thing to do as a kid was pretend I was in the opening credits of a sitcom. As the theme song would play, I'd look up at the imaginary camera and smile as my name would flash on the screen. Adam F. Goldberg

I would hate to be in high school now. Psychologists talk about the 'imaginary audience' that teens seem to feel they have around them and that makes them think they have to keep up their image all the time. Now with Facebook and MySpace and 24/7 online access, that imaginary audience has become real. Alexandra Robbins

Time Facebook Hate School Become Think Teens High Would High School About Seem Online Myspace Feel Talk Around Makes Access Audience Real Up Psychologists Them Keep Now Image Imaginary

I had a strong propensity, which I still have, to be invisible. In grade school, I'd try to disappear and become formless. I lived in a very imaginary world. I loved poetry and wrote my first novel when I was 9. It was about a little girl and the people she met in the woods. Amanda Plummer

People World Strong School Try Girl First Met Become About Propensity Poetry Had Disappear Invisible Wrote She Still Very Grade Grade School Woods Loved Which Little Little Girl Novel Lived Imaginary Imaginary World

My mom is an experimental chemist and physicist, so she is a cut-and-dried, nuts-and-bolts kind of woman, and my dad is a theoretical chemist, so we were definitely raised with his philosophical point of view: imaginary numbers and dimensions beyond our own. That's the kind of thing we would talk about. Andrew Sean Greer

Mom Woman Own Our Philosophical Definitely Dimensions Kind Would About Physicist Point Point Of View Beyond Talk She Chemist Were His Experimental View Theoretical Dad Thing Imaginary Raised Numbers

It's queer how ready people always are with advice in any real or imaginary emergency, and no matter how many times experience has shown them to be wrong, they continue to set forth their opinions, as if they had received them from the Almighty! Anne Sullivan

Experience People Matter Advice Emergency Had Almighty Wrong Ready Always Opinions How Real How Many Times Continue Queer Times Any Them Forth Many Shown Received Imaginary Set

I realized I couldn't be a journalist because I like to take a side, to have an opinion and a point a view; I liked to step across the imaginary boundary of the objective view that the journalist is supposed to have and be involved. Annie Leibovitz

Journalist Side Objective Point Take Step Boundary Like Supposed Liked Involved Because Opinion Realized Across View Imaginary

I think that when we start thought-policing people and idea-policing people, then that's crossing a line. And I think, you know, everybody's so afraid of this imaginary line of thought police that they forget their own personal safety. Ashton Kutcher

You People Police Safety Thought Own Think Everybody Crossing Know Line Forget Personal Afraid Then Start Imaginary

Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't. Barbara Sher

Obstacles Real Insurmountable Imaginary

One of the strange things about imaginary food is that it allows us to take pleasure in reading about things that we would never want to eat in real life. Bee Wilson

Life Food Strange Reading Real Life Pleasure Would Eat About Take Never Real Want Us Strange Things Things Imaginary

Growing up as a chubby kid with a ton of imaginary friends and a Cyndi Lauper obsession, I learned about rejection early on and was constantly trying to avoid it. Beth Ditto

Rejection Chubby Kid Constantly About Obsession Learned Up Friends Trying Avoid Growing Growing Up Ton Early Imaginary

Science fiction is essentially a kind of fiction in which people learn more about how to live in the real world, visiting imaginary worlds unlike our own in order to investigate, by way of pleasurable thought-experiments, how things might be done differently. Brian Stableford

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